Testimony of Zeev Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Vechelde and Ludwigslust

Testimony of Zeev Yakubovitz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Vechelde and Ludwigslust Life before the war. Deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including labor of his father as the manager of a furniture workshop until 1942; activities of Mordechai Rumkowski head of the Judenrat; Jewish police activities; death of his brother; aliya training with Gordonia in the Marysin Ghetto; deportation with his brother to Auschwitz, September 1942; transfer to Vechelde; camp life including labor in a military vehicle factory; liberation in Ludwigslust, 1945. Return to Lodz; move to Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Dov Hoz".